CAR WINDSCREENS.

Mt Benger Mail, 19 October 1938, Page 4

CAR WINDSCREENS.

COMPULSORY SAFETY GLASS RECOMMENDED. The compulsory use of safety glass in the windscreens of all new motor cars coming into or being assembled in the Dominion is favoured by the South Island Motor Union. At its annual meeting the union decided to advise the Commissioner of Transport, who is considering legislation to bring this about, of its views on the subject. The Commissioner of Transport (Mr G. L. Laurenson), said in a letter that it appeared that the position called for definite legisation making the use of safety glass compulsory on all motor vehicles assembled in or imported into New Zealand. By making this requirement apply to all now vehicles the position would automatically clear itself with a minimum of hardship. If it was decided to embrace this in a regulation reasonable time would be granted before it became effective, so that overseas manufacturers could bo advised of the position.

It might also be desirable, Mr Laurenson added, to make it an offence to replace a broken windscreen in any motor vehicle with plate glass.

SNAPPY Wishing to make his daughter efficient in business methods, a city man persuaded her to keep a note of her daily expenses. On glancing over her little hook he noticed a number of entries marked “G-.0.K.” He asked the girl what “G.0.P.” meant and discovered it stood for “goodness only knows.”

are a particular delight, passion fruit that grows wild on the edge of the bush.

A strange land, the northland, inclined to be poor, a land of hills and distance, of Maori smiles and pleasant warmth, as far from the city of Auckland as Dunedin from Christchurch and a long day’s journey at .that. A mixture, like the Dalmatian fruiterer etc., who used to set out from Thames, — “Fruit, yes; fish, yes; ice cream, yes,” all in the one van and no one minded.

Once there was an Invercargill man who visited Hawera and the Hawera people were chattering with .the cold. “Cold,” he said, “certainly; but wc wouldn’t call this cold in Invercargill—so cold down there recently that everything liquid froze hard — even the whisky, and men were going round with a piece of whisky in one hand and a piece of soda in the other, taking bites of each.”

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